Abstract
The authors of the chapter describe how immigrants deal with the obstacles that arise from the perception of their status in communication with members of the majority as second-rate. The first part shows how important it is for the life of immigrants that they are perceived primarily as foreigners.
The second part stresses, following the two-dimensional concept of inequality of Nancy Fraser, that immigrants, in addition to coping with the problem of recognition, face the unequal access to resources. This problem seems to be easier to overcome than lack of recognition.
In the third part of the chapter, the authors deal with the strategies by which immigrants try to overcome the problems they face. In this context is shown how immigrants can contribute - as unintended consequence - to the reproduction of their own disadvantages, and how they are actually involved in maintaining the image of foreigners as different, not-normal and legitimately separated from the mainstream society.